Watch and clock faces, fingernails, military instrument panels, gun sights and even children’s toys glowed with radium, hand-painted in factories by young women working for the United States Radium Corporation. The unsuspecting artisans would lick their brushes – ingesting radium particles each time – to keep the tips pointed during the precision work, but years later their teeth and skulls began to disintegrate.
-Andrew Leatherbarrow
Select a background
More quotes by Andrew Leatherbarrow
Popular Authors
A curated listing of popular authors.